everydays

posted on January 18, 2007 at 8:37 pm

new dawnthe world awakesanother blank pagetoday will be….snatched away like all the restwhy rail against time?you liked time when it was on yoursideyou liked time when it ran away with your “best” yearsyou liked time when it stretched out for you after opiumand nownow is nowthen is gonethis time theme recurs alwaystime and time againsweet fiendss in timedo you realise how many men n women have been seduced by their times?i finished my mothers book yesterdaytimes gonetimes upjust like the flapping calendar pages in old filmstyrone power had a heart attack on the setgable n flynn n steve mcqueenthey musta thought they owned the worldbut time was beavering awayand their mansions were ripped from themand the beautiful fast women and the fast beautiful carstheir youth n their fameoh fleeting things!the temptation is to think that…..we all have our own temptationsfor some its boozefor some its fleshfor some its dangerfor some its angerfor some its the seafor others its…..mefor some its smackfor others its teabut whicheverall are subject to timetime waits for no one and he wont wait for mesang jagger when he was 31 but did he believe it?you dont see old people with skulls n crossbones on their tshirtsis death a person like the white faced hooded man in the 7th seal?cutting us down with his scythe of pestilence n war a white lady who appears at the endjesus waiting at the end of a tunnel of lightyour ancestors patiently waitingthe lions and the lambsthe pools n flowers of krsnas junglebringing the cattle home on an eternal summer eveningthe sound of the flutethe lord of the universe is a slender youth the colour of a cloudeverythings okback there in that dream i was having…..i cant even remember nowi was struggling n arguingwhere almost everything hurtand things were so sadbut thisthis is indescribable

Often I get ripped back into the now, and, it’s then that I realize, while I was awash in the then and what I hope it will be, I found I wasn’t doing shit in the now to make the then happen. And, this happens every single fucking day.

Funny you mention “Time Waits For No One” today. I just sent that song to Olivia yesterday for her iPod. Wow, we’re on some kind of same wavelength… just kidding. Ha! Reminds me of that scene from “Imagine” were some guy had been sleeping in the garden of John and Yoko’s home (Tittenhurst I believe). They’re talking to him on the front steps. The guy thinks all these songs have been written about him or to him. He says something like “so when you said “”boy you’re going to carry that weight””… and John says, “that was Paul”. You could just see the life drain out of that poor guys face. Of course they invited him in and gave him something to eat. I wish Lennon was still around…Anthony

….for some its me. “yep” sk some of the best and worst moments of time have been with you marty and the ceerrch.

Think of how your music has penitrated time. I am not obsessed with you ” I don’t think’ But I couldn’t imagine my life without the Church. Ya see I cryed at the gig in Melbourne infront of you and the grizzling Peter K not because I am like a crazy beetles chick or a demented fan…It was because as the space ship took off in my induced state I went into day-5 like a black hole, spira=ling into a myirid of colours ,emotion and unbelievable sonic bliss. TIME stood still, as (I exited quietly… Ya see, the music sk is timeless…but uit’s in its own space in time.. We will all be -microfish- one day. but as this earth accepts our time here we are blessed with the cheerrch’s talent..It is timeless to us and the standard that NO other band WILL ever reach. And yet you are as quoted by SK ” just the singer of the band.

Time has no method of understanding its self without music.

Off to big Day Out.. Hope it doesn’t rain lookin foward to the Killers Killa.

Tell ya how they stacked up! D-Bowie say’s ther great.Iam sure that NY sneaky has given ya a come down.

Time is the enemy. That bastard gets us all in the end. I think that the only way to fight the fight is to live one’s life to the fullest. To squeeze every bit of experience from this all too brief existance, before its gone for good. Not to be afraid to try. Not to hold back.

Of course it’s futile. Time will still win in the end. But at least, if I have truly lived, I can spit in his eye on the way out that door.

i am alway amused by the idea that people suggest living in the moment is the best way to live, i for some strange reason, possibly due to a few to many blows upon the head seem to do this in a very easy way, ie, it comes naturally to me, yet this is what infuriates the people who know me, i never have a clue what day it is, what time, often turning up to things late or early, being led along tangents and distractions, loopwholes or doorways into altered states and alternative realities, i’ve cultivated a slight disipline, mostly due to fatherhood and responsibility, but generally manage to stay in the moment of things. I’m not sure if thats a curse or a blessing. anyway it nice starting the day with a blank page (great metaphor) and i’m not sure what goes on in peoples lives (((()))) becuase i don’t always read the comments but i wish you all good health spiit and love and consider it quite a special phenomena when a group of strangers are somehow unified by a ‘time being,’ if ya know what i mean….

Ahh Professor Kilbey,what melancholy joy you give…my wife, baby boy and I were listening to Life Speeds Up on a road trip yesterday, and how beautifully poignant that song still is, no doubt forged in the fire and steel of your/our youth…it means something different all these years later, doesn’t it? That, I think, is when a song becomes art…and so many of your songs are like that these days…anyway, we enjoyed it and felt it…the world spins alone…

All this carpe diem talk by you, my fellow commenters… it takes time to contemplate and reflect too. Run through life trying to make the most of it, and you’ll miss the biggest and the smallest things, the most wonderful and the most terrifying things. You’ll narrow your vision, reduce your horizons. Run though life and you’ll have learned nothing, seen nothing, done nothing.

ryan says: “if I have truly lived, I can spit in his eye on the way out that door.”

amen brother. that’s about all you can do. Right now we’re in the very depressing state of watching my 93 year old grandmother literally slip out of time. She’s not living, she’s not dying. She’s in some weird state of suspended animation. It’s hellish to watch. And her life was tied to one street for 60 + years; she never went anywhere, saw anything…so live, live by all means do all you can to live the hell out of this thing because there’s no getting out alive as we know.

We are caught up in Time; it defines us. The space/time continuum …..warps in space, time as an elastic variable, not a constant – travelling at the speed of light maybe in an Einsteinian world. I’ve caught a glimpse while…..um, in an altered state of perception.

In the world of work and earning my daily bread – I long for the day when my time belongs to me alone, to revel in, waste offhandedly, savor and cherish. That’s my greatest resentment – when this souless entity confiscates my time. I think of that film scene, when Roy meets his creator, Tyrell, he says “I want more…….life.”

“it takes time to contemplate and reflect too. Run through life trying to make the most of it, and you’ll miss the biggest and the smallest things, the most wonderful and the most terrifying things.”

I completely agree. I don’t think that living life fully involves go go go. Living deeply also means lying under the olive trees as the sun dries salt to a thin, powdery crust on browned skin. Eating a rustic lunch of bread, hard cheese and coarse local wine drunk straight from the bottle. Your backdrop is the bleached bony spine of the mainland that towers over the islands and the sea, and in the distance the slow clonk of sheep bells. (http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_07.20.06/travel/travel.php). Taking time to “stop and smell the flowers”, as they say.

Time is a thread that is only a point of reference. As we grow more techno we are able to use more time than before and cheat. You know like, drive a car,talk on the cell,surf the time being, and drop your kids to school all in fifteen. The internet has changed the impact of time, now when someone is killed, or disaster strikes it seems more…shockingly common place in a way, only because we are world viewers from the effects of CNN and faster media and at the rate that we absorbed it and try to understand it the reverberations of the effect are played out and spoon feed to us immediately. Meanwhile, radio waves are moving at a constant out in space and say way out there somewhere a life-force may be tuning in to hear Vera Lynn, Miles Davis, JFK, MLK,the sinking of the Titanic, or even Under The Milky Way for the very first time. I fear fellow man/woman more than time. We are nothing in the course of time but a blink you and I, yet we all seem to be hot wired for some purpose. We have the kings, queens, and drones. Perhaps, this is the entrance of the seven deadlys all perpetuated by time. Old Lucifer has use for still hands and some people have a lot to answer for. I hope I realize my purpose before its already the end and at best I hope my last bit of knowledge will be provided in an answer….WHY?

I swear to the almighty universe this is exactly how I too have been feeling and what I’ve been contemplating…too weird, but increasingly non-surprising. There you go again “hittin’ the nail right on the head” with that one. Strange vibrations in the cosmos I guess. Thank you for doing that. It makes me feel I’m not alone. Plus I really dig the way you lay it all down. Time is just…time. There, it’s gone again. Just like our breath and energy, and wisdoms and talents however we utilize them. It disappears and recycles somehow. Physicalities, circumstances…who and what we share it all with…EVERYBODY and EVERYTHING. Also for what reasons, if any. Are there thoughts and dreams involved? It is random, yet finely calculated. What is the beginning and what is the end, is still questionable. Mysteriously inevitable demise that awaits, or is it graduation to a tangent existence? Primary origination, or rekindled birth? We’ll not know until we actually get there. In the meanTIME…we live. It is my personal wish and intention to you all that time does treat us well in this interim and beyond.Have a lovely day, SK and fellow TBers…Ben V.

How do we come to terms with it.I was particularly obsessed with the subject all day and reading your blog tonight as well as the comments has just intensified it even more. Death is here, all around, we are all dying now, slowly, or quickly, decaying, changing, fading away and as I read today in Ian Gawler’s old book on healing and dying, if the space inside every atom in our bodies was removed the actual size of the material (or what was dense enough to resemble physical matter) that would be left would be the size of a pin head (or something like that – sorry to the physics types if I haven’t got that quite right but you know). We’re not even really here in the first place? Crossing the harbour in the ferry today I was watching the waves and imagining them to be people’s lives- there’s one- now it’s gone-a lifetime, merged back into the ocean, another wave, a moment and then gone. All those Yogis and the ancient teachings better be right! I keep saying to my boyfriend when we are pleasantly sitting in the sun having a cup of coffee, ‘In a minute we are going to be 80’ Thanks Steve for expressing in language what to most of us (well speak for myself) usually has to remain abstracted in feelings and vague images.

Fawn, why don’t you imagine those harbour waves taking you back ceaselessly (apologies F.Scott) to your youth, to your childhood, then trying to see the world from that perspective…how infinite and beautiful…not 80 but 8! maybe you’re looking from the wrong side of the ferry…great thoughts though, thanks…

the only time we control time is when we change the clocks…spring forward, fall back (which i hate, by the way) and even then, does time really change? does it really spring forward of fall back? of course not! we are time’s little pet…get to have few treats, patted on the head once and a while, and we get to sleep some place comfy hopefully…but we are not in control. there’s never enough and what there is of it…well, it’s running out.take care everyone.mark

dearest fiendss n fiendettesi was up at 6 to write you a bloggebut the system is downand ducklings feather is down tooanywayi tried…hopefully after this 1st showi do today in a winery outside adelaidegood evening all you winos!!so ….see ya later thensk

Thanks for taking the time for that SK.Much love winging its way to you from blighty.Here’s for a great tour. Knock ’em dead, break a leg, convert some lost souls to the greatness of The Chrunch.I’m not much of a Pretenders fan but i hope it leads to some extra sales and profiles for the greatest rock band of all time. Time again!Wish I was there. Can’t wait for El Mo 2 to be shipped by the Church Merch crew. Any chance of a gig or two in England??Friday night in England. Off for a couple pints of ale and a Tarka Dhall.Love you more,

hi steve and fellow bloggersbeen taking a leaf out of the kilbey book this week getting up early to supper for my fartwrite the morning pagesjust received v late xmas present to selfjake thackray’s ‘jake in a box’(shouldn’t that be ‘thack in a box’?)and el momento descuidadodear jake bless his souldelivers parochial tales of provincial englandin his quirky yorkshire noel coward accentboy could he play guitaras for elmodelike the laidback intimate feelthe way the familiar songs reveal their hidden agendas yield up subtle new harmoniesilluminate new possibilities‘tristesse’ is a favethat lovely melty 12-string bitin the middle0408 is a standout unfamiliar trackand love the sleeve arthasta luegofireseed

ohhhhhwith my cup of chai i sat down for a read of my favourite bloggy buti guess you’re getting ready to strut ye olde stuff with the vineyardy folk insteadso i send you my good vibes insteadand wait for your poetictraveloguemay it all be smoothana peaceful with your band of brothers

thanks SK – I did miss your blogge this morning. hope the gig went well. I’m not sure if anyone has asked this – but is there any chance of The Church (only) playing anytime soon (Sydney)??? Not a huge Pretenders fan – just want to see YOU guys xxxxI was in the kitchen yesterday singing one of your tunes – and both my teenage son AND husband joined me and sang the next lines….!!!! XXXX

time time time, blah blah blah…here’s some reality for ya…Another war starting soon!! Available now on the church merch site( sic) ….cuts so deep… maybe this time we will win! I’ve heard Eurasia is slipping and Ashtan is on the move…There will be no chocky rations this week to make up for the extra oil needed on the front…Anyway, for a drop-out shamen like me… I’m only worried about my sativa supply…In the days of the Apockylapse that is my most pressing need…seriously. I’m not sure i need fluffy pop nombres, however….where has the feeling gone?? Was i wrong all this time? give me something that matters…Not self-congrats…Holy fuckin Shiva!!!

I have yet to see the band electrified! I long for this day! Im here in the USA you see. Im going to find a way to get el momento part deux. I hope it gets signed if it isnt already, so that you can share it with the world. Song in the after noon is really really grand! I heard it on myspace. Its great to hear that cool as everything voice with a new tune. The band is always reinventing itself and getting better with every new album. The thing with that is, when i hear something new from the church, i always think they could never top this one, but they do. I think they always will. -AllenGalveston TX

yah! there is more new songs on myspace now. cant wait for this or the church studio album whenever that one is due out. Pure Chance is SUBLIME! who is that girl sk? hope you blew away those pretenders fans steven!!!!

inga liljestrom on pure chance perchance?lovely lovely more duets please she sings wild is the wind too, i hint hopefullyso are you behaving yourself down there in adeladle and has chrissie got the vegetarian catering sorted out?

It’s already yesterday, we’re off the calendarI heard the sirens play just like an orchestraMechanical bird of prey sing for your emperorLast broken flash of love still in the cameraWe don’t feel those locks and chainsWe won’t listen to the lizard part of our brainsGiving the ordersAnother morning we’ll be goneI start the car for Ten Mile BeachAnd maybe Avalon, across the waterIt’s already yesterday and nobody’s answeringDisconncted, drift away, nobody’s questioningHead silver, feet of clay, who is surrenderingThey fall in our heyday, I am remembering(Chorus)We can’t feel those aches and painsWe won’t listen to the voices in the city rainGiving the ordersAnother morning I’ll be goneI start the car for Violet TownAnd then to Babylon, over the border

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